Defense of Marriage Act

Quality:

Defense of Marriage Act - 1996 US law defining marriage for federal purposes; overturned in the 2010s. Article “Defense of Marriage Act” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Defense of Marriage Act” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (7410^th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Defense of Marriage Act”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 743 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 916 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #400 in June 2013
• Global: #452 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2881 in June 2013
• Global: #883 in June 2013

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Defense of Marriage Act		86.9376
2	Chinese (zh) 捍卫婚姻法案		43.6623
3	Ukrainian (uk) Закон про захист шлюбу		42.4763
4	Russian (ru) Закон о защите брака		35.6369
5	German (de) Defense of Marriage Act		35.608
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Defensa del Matrimonio		27.4455
7	Malay (ms) Defense of Marriage Act		18.6997
8	Persian (fa) قانون دفاع از ازدواج		16.1367
9	Swedish (sv) Defense of Marriage Act		13.6722
10	Indonesian (id) Defense of Marriage Act		13.0022

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defense of Marriage Act		6 578 749
2	German (de) Defense of Marriage Act		60 963
3	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Defesa do Matrimônio		41 939
4	Russian (ru) Закон о защите брака		39 576
5	Spanish (es) Ley de Defensa del Matrimonio		36 505
6	Chinese (zh) 捍卫婚姻法案		35 215
7	French (fr) Defense of Marriage Act		22 964
8	Japanese (ja) 結婚防衛法		11 430
9	Persian (fa) قانون دفاع از ازدواج		7 669
10	Swedish (sv) Defense of Marriage Act		7 476

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defense of Marriage Act		14 719
2	German (de) Defense of Marriage Act		164
3	Russian (ru) Закон о защите брака		160
4	Simple English (simple) Defense of Marriage Act		160
5	Chinese (zh) 捍卫婚姻法案		138
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Defensa del Matrimonio		83
7	Japanese (ja) 結婚防衛法		61
8	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Defesa do Matrimônio		46
9	French (fr) Defense of Marriage Act		38
10	Serbian (sr) Закон о одбрани брака		28

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defense of Marriage Act		542
2	German (de) Defense of Marriage Act		43
3	Spanish (es) Ley de Defensa del Matrimonio		21
4	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Defesa do Matrimônio		19
5	Chinese (zh) 捍卫婚姻法案		18
6	Russian (ru) Закон о защите брака		17
7	Simple English (simple) Defense of Marriage Act		17
8	French (fr) Defense of Marriage Act		14
9	Swedish (sv) Defense of Marriage Act		12
10	Japanese (ja) 結婚防衛法		9

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defense of Marriage Act		5
2	Simple English (simple) Defense of Marriage Act		1
3	Arabic (ar) قانون الدفاع عن الزواج		0
4	German (de) Defense of Marriage Act		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Leĝo de Defendo de Geedzeco		0
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Defensa del Matrimonio		0
7	Estonian (et) Abielu kaitse seadus		0
8	Persian (fa) قانون دفاع از ازدواج		0
9	French (fr) Defense of Marriage Act		0
10	Indonesian (id) Defense of Marriage Act		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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